Example sentences of "he was [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 2 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 3 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 4 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 5 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 6 | He was draining her from every angle , mentally , physically and … and sexually . |
| 7 | She knew he was hiding something from her about the cat , something nasty , that should not be spoken of , she was sure . |
| 8 | ‘ Would it be rude of me to ask who he was hiding it from ? ’ |
| 9 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 10 | Standing right on top of her by now , he was preventing her from walking out unless she actually brought herself to push past him , and she feared the follow-up to their slightest physical contact . |